Week 1

Lecture 1, 23 Aug.: Introduction & Looking at data

Part 1: Introduction to NLP

Presentation

Recording

Recommended readings

• (Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 2. ed., Ch. 1
  • No longer available. We will try to find a replacement.)
• Wikipedia, "Natural Language Processing"
• Wikipedia, "Computational Linguistics"

Part 2 Looking at data

Presentation

Screen cast videos:

1. Data
2. Frequencies
3. Numeric data
4. Dispersion

Recommended readings

• Wikipedia, "Frequency (statistics)
• NLTK Book,
  • Ch.1, Sec. 3 "Computing with Language: Simple Statistics"
  • Ch.2, Sec. 2 "Conditional Frequency Distributions"

For the descriptive statistics part, any of the following will cover the lecture

• OpenIntro (3. ed.)1.1, 1.2.0- 1.2.2, 1.6.0-1.6.5, 1.7.0-1.7.2
• Moore and McCabe: Ch. 1, "Looking at Data - Distributions", sec. 1.1-1.2

Group session, Thursday 26.8 12.15 in Sed

• Exercise set